slider problem

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Wed Apr 27 23:49:42 PDT 2016


On 4/28/2016 7:27 AM, Tomohiro Kusumi wrote:
> Key mappings as well as appearance of ncurses is often different
> depending on term type.
> I've also seen ncurses behaves differently while in screen or tmux.
>
> I used to make my programs have different mappings (for ones that i
> know of) though this may not be the right approach.
>
>
> 2016-04-28 10:28 GMT+09:00 Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com>:
>> I just noticed that if I use 1 instead of F1, 2 instead of F2, 3 instead
>> of F3, 4 instead of F4 everything works as expected.
>>
>> I forgot to mention in my first e-mail that I am using vanilla xterm and
>> cwm (Calm Window Manager from the base of OpenBSD).

I confirm that "1" key is alias of "F1", "2" for "F2" etc.
These aliases exist for exactly the reason you encountered: sometimes 
the function keys don't work in a given terminal, but the number keys 
always work.

John



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